£4,000 - £6,000
THOMAS BARDWELL (1704-1767)
Portrait of Lady Henrietta Vernon, half-length, in masquerade dress garments, holding a quill in her left hand, a red curtain beyond.
Signed & dated ' T Bardwell. f. 1751 ' to lower right.
Oil on canvas painting
76.2cm x 63.5cm (30" x 25")
The sitter, Lady Henrietta Wentworth, was the youngest daughter and co-heir of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, diplomat under King William III and Queen Anne, and Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Henry Johnson of Bradenhall, Buckinghamshire. She married Henry Vernon of Hilton Park, eldest son of Henry Vernon by Penelope, second daughter and co-heir of Robert Phillips of Newton Regis, Warwick, on 26 December 1743, and died on 12 April 1786. Her grandson, Frederick William Thomas Vernon Wentworth of Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire, whose patronym was Vernon, assumed the additional surname and arms of Wentworth by Royal License on 16 October 1804.
Thomas Bardwell is know to have visited Yorkshire in the early 1750s. Portraits of William, 2nd Earl of Strafford, and his wife Anne, are recorded in a private collection (date 1749 and 1752 respectively) and a further portrait of Anne Countess of Strafford dated 1750 is also held in a private collection.
PROVENANCE:
By descent from the sitter in the family at Wentworth Castle, Yorkshire (according to plaque). Peter Morrison Holt, Heaton Moor, and by inheritance in 1995 to previous owner. Acquired by current owner in 2004 at Chomè Fine Art, Bath.
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